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• Michael Bloomberg says he won’t run for president, slams “divisive and demagogic” Trump campaign

  07-03-2016 23:37 via salon.com
  
  In an essay titled "A Risk I Will Not Take" published on BloombergView, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he will not run for president in 2016.Bloomberg, 74, decided against a third-party run out of fear he'd split the Democratic vote and hand the presidency to Donald Trump."I love our country too much to play a role in electing a candidate who would weaken our unity and darken our future," he wrote.Bloomberg — who has a net worth of upwards of $37 billion — use
  
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• Bernie Sanders defends “ghetto” remark that sparked outrage during debate with Hillary Clinton in Flint, Michigian

  07-03-2016 22:28 via salon.com
  
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• The Feelies on “the awkwardness of trying to break through”

  07-03-2016 22:04 via salon.com
  
  The strange and unpredictable course of rock history means that Nirvana exploded in 1991 and made it possible for raw, eccentric, and experimental bands to get a wider hearing.For indie-rock fan, that meant years of bounty. But it also means that a number of groups came along a little too early to get swept up in the maelstrom of signings that followed “Nevermind.” One of them was The Feelies, the New Jersey group that released four albums and broke up without stretching much outside
  
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• Alabama lawmaker proposes castration bill for sex offenders

  07-03-2016 21:38 via salon.com
  
  Steve Hurst, Alabama House of Reps, is pushing a bill (HB 365) which will surgically castrate sex offenders before they leave prison. The bill is geared toward sex offenders (male and female) over the age of 21 that committed sex offenses against children 12 years old and younger.Hurst attempted to get this bill passed back in 2013 expressing that “They have marked this child for life and the punishment should fit the crime."This bill involves castration for both men and women. Male castra
  
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• “Tenemos Familias”: Watch Bernie Sanders’ powerful Spanish-language documentary ad

  07-03-2016 20:57 via salon.com
  
  After back-to-back debates Sunday and Monday (Fox News is hosting a Dem town hall tonight) in Michigan, the Democratic candidates head to Florida to face off again Wednesday ahead of the crucial March 15 primary, and after days of discussing the Flint water crisis, the Sanders campaign is now bringing attention to the plight of farmworkers in the Sunshine State.Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders targeted his focus on Florida and its rich voter count with a new documentary-style ad that criticizes
  
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• ISIS has massacred almost 200 Iraqis in the past week, while Western countries turn away refugees

  07-03-2016 20:38 via salon.com
  
  Almost 200 Iraqis have been massacred by ISIS in the past week, the majority of whom were civilians from the Shia Muslim religious community.A suicide bombing in Hillah, south of Iraq's capital Baghdad, on Sunday killed at least 61 people and injured another 95, the AP reports. Of those killed, 52, or 85 percent, were civilians. The remaining nine victims were Iraqi security forces. Another eight people are missing.ISIS took credit for the attack in an online statement.The United Nations forcefu
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner slams Hillary Clinton: She “couldn’t care less about women”

  07-03-2016 20:38 via salon.com
  
  Reality television star Caitlyn Jenner was sharply critical of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the season premiere of her E! television show "I Am Cait."During the episode, Jenner discussed her discomfort with attending a Democratic presidential debate. "It's the last place I want to be," said Jenner. "I'm open. We need both sides and if we're unfortunate enough get Hillary as our next president, we need her on our side. Although she won't be. She
  
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• ICE is increasingly targeting young people: This high school student was detained on her way to school

  07-03-2016 20:31 via salon.com
  
  In her homeland of Honduras, Kimberly Pineda Chavez and her family got late night calls threatening to rape her and her siblings if her family did not pay the police the money they wanted. They looked to America for refuge -- in 2014 they entered the country.In January, Kimberly was stopped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on her way to school in Atlanta. She was arrested, detained and is currently awaiting possible deportation, according to the Georgian Latino Alliance for Hu
  
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• Donald Trump orders Republicans to unite behind him. Here’s why they almost certainly will

  07-03-2016 20:14 via salon.com
  
  After a weekend during which he fell short of expectations for the first time since placing second in Iowa, Donald Trump attempted to change the conversation, and influence his fellow Republicans, with one of the tactics he’s used so effectively throughout the 2016 campaign: leveling a thinly-veiled threat.Here’s how it went, according to Politico:Donald Trump demanded that Republicans unify behind his campaign on Saturday night, arguing that conservatives who don’t back his ca
  
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• This NRA tweet doesn’t bode well for Bernie Sanders at all

  07-03-2016 20:04 via salon.com
  
  I'm afraid the shit's about to hit the fan for Sen. Bernie Sanders. All along the campaign trail, his right-of-Hillary gun stance has been his liberal Achilles' heel. And his defense of gun manufacturers at Sunday night's Democratic debate is threatening to be the poison arrow.Hillary Clinton 0n Monday morning tweeted the following in an attempt to hammer home the idea that Sanders is ideologically in synch with the NRA on the issue of making gun manufacturers answerable to victim
  
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• The Republican establishment copes with disaster: There’s no escaping the impossible choice of Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz

  07-03-2016 19:58 via salon.com
  
  After another weekend of primaries and caucuses, the Republican race for president has crystallized even further. We’re looking at two-candidate race down the stretch: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.Cruz secured two more victories in Kansas and Maine, bringing his overall count to six. Trump neutralized Cruz’s gains with two more wins in Kentucky and Louisiana, cementing his position in the broader delegate race.Marco Rubio finished a paltry third in each of the states. For all his contri
  
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• Newt Gingrich keeps comparing Donald Trump to the grizzly bear in “The Revenant”

  07-03-2016 19:58 via salon.com
  
  "I could not imagine how I'd run this year," former House Speaker and failed Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said of the 2016 contest. Gingrich, who ran for the White House in 2016, admitted to the Huffington Post's "Candidate Confessional" podcast that he wasn't sure how he would fare in a debate with Donald Trump at centerstage.“The debates were clearly the key to my survival," Gingrich explained. “These debates are totally different."While in 2012, Gingrich wa
  
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• What Louis C.K.’s powerful Trump warning gets wrong

  07-03-2016 19:36 via salon.com
  
  These days, it sounds retro and outdated, but political figures used to talk about bringing the nation together. There was an assumption, implicit in the motto of the United States – e pluribus unum, “out of many, one” – that the whole country shared values and assumptions; that when a threat, internal or external, materialized, we’d find a way to meet in the middle to join hands and repel it.A lot of us like the sound of that. But does it really work in the 21st&nb
  
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• My secret debate with Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism & free-speech hypocrisy

  07-03-2016 19:05 via salon.com
  
  Last December, I published an essay in Salon reviewing "Islam and the Future of Tolerance," a book-length "discourse" on reforming Islam, conducted between neuroscientist Sam Harris and activist Maajid Nawaz. In it, I argued that the book was a simplistic and unoriginal take on a complex topic, more of a friendly conversation than any kind of serious analysis. The piece concluded by lamenting the erosion of public debate, as intellectuals of previous eras have been replaced by pro
  
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• Ted Cruz moves in for the kill: His late-stage Florida surge is designed to destroy Marco Rubio

  07-03-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  
  Last week, in a moment of poorly disguised desperation, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called for a sort of gentleman’s agreement among the campaigns of Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Ted Cruz. Their shared goal should be stopping Donald Trump from winning the party’s nomination in 2016, Romney insisted, and getting there required some strategic voting: figure out which of the three candidates was best positioned to beat Trump in any given state, and have all their
  
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• Dinesh D’Souza’s “Hillary’s America” trailer proves there are still filmmakers who think Leni Riefenstahl was too subtle

  07-03-2016 18:03 via salon.com
  
  Dinesh D'Souza released a trailer to his latest film, "Hillary's America," and it may very well be the most ignorantly manipulative piece of film-making this film scholar has seen in decades. I would break it down, but it needs no breaking down, as it shouts at your face-holes in an attempt to circumvent your brain loud enough on its own:
  Dinesh D'Souza released a trailer to his latest film, "Hillary's America," and it may very well be the most ignorantly manipulative piece of film-making this f
  
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• Rick Snyder live-tweets his defense on Flint water crisis after Democratic candidates call for his resignation during debate

  07-03-2016 17:51 via salon.com
  
  During Sunday's Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Michigan, both candidates called on Republican Governor Rick Snyder to resign after his disastrous handling of the lead poisoning of the city's water supply line.Bernie Sanders used his opening statement to address the crisis and go after the governor, repeating his leading January call for Snyder to resign. "I'll start by saying Amen to that," rival Hillary Clinton echoed to begin her opening statement, adding that Sny
  
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• “Torture does not work”: General humiliates bumbling N.H. Republican on CNN for blindly supporting Trump’s “toxic” torture stance

  07-03-2016 17:48 via salon.com
  
  On CNN's "News Day" Monday morning, CNN military analyst and retired three-star Lt. General Mark Hertling battled with Al Baldasaro, a Republican in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, over Donald Trump's promise to ramp up torture tactics in defiance of the Geneva Conventions.Though taking a decidedly pro-torture stance ("a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding," as he's repeated as recently as last Thursday), Trump backtracked when 100 Pentagon and national security off
  
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• Why the Sanders campaign may be cheering for a Trump win: Top strategist predicts Democratic turnout “could exponentially increase”

  07-03-2016 16:16 via salon.com
  
  Soon after CNN's Democratic debate began in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday, the Associated Press called the Maine caucuses for Bernie Sanders. The day before, he took the caucuses in both Nebraska and Kansas, winning 3 of 4 weekend contests. Now, his campaign is explaining that he is still in it to win it -- and can do that as soon as Donald Trump stops taking all the votes.Without a doubt, Sanders campaign political strategist Tad Devine told Politico's Glenn Trush, the cam
  
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• Sanders slips during debate: Bernie needed a good showing in Michigan, but instead came across as condescending and short-sighted

  07-03-2016 16:02 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders needed a good debate Sunday night. While the Vermont senator is doing a lot better in the Democratic primary than most would have expected when he threw his hat into the ring, Hillary Clinton Cstill has more than twice as many delegates as he does and is expected to sweep Michigan and Mississippi on Tuesday. To improve his already dim chances, Sanders had to find a way to appeal to women and people of color, because winning with white men isn't quite enough to push
  
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• Nancy Reagan’s anti-feminism might be her most lasting legacy

  07-03-2016 15:56 via salon.com
  
  Former first lady Nancy Reagan died at age 94 on Sunday. She will be remembered, above all other things, as an almost too-perfect symbol of the weirdness that was the 1980s, when her husband Ronald Reagan was president. She ran the "Just Say No" campaign against drugs while allegedly being a pill enthusiast herself. She sat in Mr. T's lap. She and her husband campaigned against welfare by implying that recipients are freeloaders, but threw a fit when they were told that they had to pay for their
  
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• People spent $12.9 billion on plastic surgeries last year

  07-03-2016 15:00 via salon.com
  
  American Society of Plastic Surgeons released the 2015 Plastic Surgery Report. It might come as no surprise that cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. have increased 115% between 2000 to 2015. A startling 15.9 million Americans underwent a cosmetic procedure last year contributing to the $12.9 billion per year industry. Coming in at the most popular procedure was breast augmentation, however buttock implant procedures show the greatest increase. Watch the above video to learn
  
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• Donald Trump’s latest unverifiable claim: I’ve been disavowing “the Ku Klux Klan from the time I was five years old”

  07-03-2016 14:08 via salon.com
  
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• The savage philosophy of Donald Trump: How he doubled-down on his terrifying foreign policy

  07-03-2016 14:01 via salon.com
  
  Is there a luckier politician in America than Donald Trump? Just as he starts to lose some altitude in the race, having to face a certain deluge of media scrutiny all day Sunday and Monday in the wake of the Super Saturday Ted Cruz boomlet, former first lady Nancy Reagan dies, suppressing the coverage of the presidential race and halting the momentum of the growing narrative of Trump weakening. He didn't plan this, of course, but it's a testament to his good luck and timing that it happened when
  
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• The Republican Party burned itself: How years of racist demagoguing paved the way for this terrifying moment

  07-03-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  By most accounts, President Obama is not a radical leftist, as many on the right continue to proclaim day in and day out. In fact, when looking at the Obama administration’s policies over the past seven-plus years, it is pretty clear, to the dismay of actual leftists, that the president has governed as a political centrist. Obama has been relatively forgiving to Wall Street, has waged a virtual war on whistleblowers, and has overseen a brutal drone program tha
  
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• Yes, it’s OK to be angry at Elizabeth Warren: Stop stigmatizing Sanders supporters for wishing she endorsed

  07-03-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  Some Bernie Sanders supporters are angry at Elizabeth Warren for not endorsing him before the Massachusetts primary. And so begins the newest episode in Hillary Clinton partisans attempting to smear everyday Sanders supporters—who, truth be told, mostly seem to be pretty nice and progressive-minded people—as pathologically sexist. In reality, Sanders supporters have every right to be angry and to express that anger. Warren is far closer to Sanders ideologically than to Hillary Clinto
  
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• Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Getting Sly & the Family Stone all wrong — at the expense of the band’s women

  07-03-2016 13:56 via salon.com
  
  The centerpiece of episode 4 of "Vinyl," Martin Scorsese’s new HBO drama set in the record industry in the 1970s, is the introduction of Hannibal (Daniel J. Watts), an African-American funk artist modeled strongly on Sly Stone, of Sly & the Family Stone. His dramatic elevator-doors-opening entrance is to the magnificent “Psychedelic Shack” by the Temptations, which is the only positive element of this particular plot line.If you’re not familiar with Sly & the Fami
  
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• Ted Cruz: A brokered convention would be illegitimate and wrong — unless Trump’s the nominee

  07-03-2016 13:47 via salon.com
  
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• “There’s no way to break them up”: John Oliver tackles tax districts that siphon your cash without you knowing it

  07-03-2016 13:32 via salon.com
  
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• Paul Krugman: Not even most hardened cynics would have imagined the GOP would sink so low

  07-03-2016 13:26 via salon.com
  
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• 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — The GOP is still lying to itself

  07-03-2016 12:48 via salon.com
  
  We all got to think a little too much about Donald Trump's manhood this week. No one deserves that. Of course, the state of the Republican campaign for president being what it is, Thursday night's debate was hardly the only shitshow in town. Just in case you missed them, right wingers spewed a variety of vile and ridiculous things in the past few days. Here are some other less-publicized low-lights.1. Bobby Jindal blames President Obama for the rise of Trump.Dear Rhodes Scholarship Committee,Pl
  
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• Too loony for Fox News: Fox created the fact-free GOP, then Trump stole it away

  07-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  On a recent “Face the Nation” appearance, Marco Rubio blamed Donald Trump’s extraordinary success as a presidential candidate on — you guessed it — “the media.” In his words, “the media coverage for Donald Trump has almost been cheerleading over the last couple weeks and I’m convinced [it’s] because many in the press want him to be nominee.” Why? Because it would provide Hillary Clinton “a clear shot to the Oval Office.&rdqu
  
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• Let’s get rid of Annapolis: Our military academies screw taxpayers and the students — and serve only the powerful brass

  07-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  The official website of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where I’ve taught for 29 years, has the phrase “Leaders to Serve the Nation” right under the name of the institution. This phrase is also on the flags that now embellish our campus. But what are “leaders” and what does it mean to “serve the nation”?USNA graduates fewer than one in five new Navy officers and an even smaller percentage of new Marine officers. These cost taxpayers about
  
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• The #NeverTrump farce: Hypocritical Marco Rubio shows how Republicans will learn to like Donald Trump

  07-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  The anti-Donald Trump within the Republican Party have a compelling and indisputably accurate case to make against their own presidential frontrunner. He’s an unprincipled goon, an ignorant clod, a preening jackass, an authoritarian lout, and he has tiny little sausage fingers. He’s manifestly unqualified for the presidency and is a conspicuous threat to use the considerable power of that office in ways that are dangerous, illegal, and morally reprehensible. To support Trump, they ar
  
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• This is not a court of law: Why GOP obstruction over Scalia seat might open everyone’s eyes to a politicized Supreme Court

  07-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  President Obama and the United States Senate are headed for a high stakes showdown with nothing less than the Supreme Court of the United States itself at stake. If the Republicans in the Senate make good on their threat to not even hold confirmation hearings on any nominee to fill Justice Scalia’s seat until the next president is inaugurated next January, they will take the political partisanship of the confirmation process to an entirely new level. Moreover, 18 months of an eight-pe
  
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• Generation Gone: Where are all the Gen X Democrats?

  07-03-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  It’s hard to miss the difference: Line up the Republican candidates for president, as keeps happening on debate stages every few weeks, and you see Ted Cruz (born 1970) and Marco Rubio (born 1971) standing alongside older pols. Listen to them, and you hear talk about East Coast vs. West Coast hip-hop, favorite “Simpsons” episodes and movies like “The Usual Suspects.” You hear Rubio talking about a new generation and a new century.Look more broadly at the field of pr
  
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• Sleepy Sunday night beautiful world https://t.co/Fm2jnTAzh6

  07-03-2016 06:10 via twitter.com
  
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• The Democrats are about to blow it: This election is about new millennials, not aging baby boomers

  07-03-2016 01:30 via salon.com
  
  “This campaign is about a political revolution,” Bernie Sanders says on the campaign trail, “to not only elect the president, but to transform this country.” Hillary Clinton replies that that’s a pipe dream and points to how hard it is to make even incremental progress against an intransigent Republican Congress.But while Clinton has good reasons for this rejoinder, she may be misreading the political landscape, and would do better politically by stealing Bernie San
  
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• Stripping and Starbucks — when corporations take over desire

  07-03-2016 01:29 via salon.com
  
  My regular is an elegantly dressed gentleman in his mid-50s, slightly overweight in a way that calls out for the word “portly.” He is soft-spoken and a little dull, but he pays me to listen—two or three nights a week, he comes to the club and buys me drinks and tells me his troubles, but never demands a dance. He likes me, he says, because I am “classy”—in fact, he tells me, I’m too classy for this place. I look around Backstage Bill’s: Smoke hangs
  
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• Farewell to my face: I’m middle-aged and I look it — but don’t ask me to like it

  07-03-2016 00:30 via salon.com
  
  A couple of years ago, my teenage daughter took my photograph on our front stoop, and the pictures showed a diagonal gash running down and out along either side of my nose. “The light’s bad out here,” I said, so we moved to the patio. She snapped more pictures. The gashes were still there. I rotated 90 degrees. Still there. I think you know where this is going.I’d heard of this happening to other people. “That’s around when she started losing her looks,&r
  
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